teenage

Anne M. Fletcher is not only an acclaimed health and medical journalist, the author of the bestselling Thin for Life, and former contributing editor for Prevention magazine; she is also a registered dietician with a master's degree in nutrition science. With those credentials, who would be better to provide a real weight-loss guide for parents and their overweight children?

This review makes me want to read a book I would never ever have wanted to read before.

For years she scribbled poems on the edges of her class notes, but kept them from the sight of wandering eyes, fearful that her secrets of abuse, depression, and pain would be discovered. Now after watching her friends fall into the same holes, Amanda has chosen to release her poems to the public as a way of spreading awareness and to share her experiences with others.

A story of how we survive our teen years, or not.